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A security analyst is assessing several company firewalls. Which of the following tools would the analyst most likely use to generate custom packets to use during the assessment?

  • A. hping
  • B. Wireshark
  • C. PowerShell
  • D. netstat
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Suggested Answer: A 🗳️

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Yvesr
Highly Voted 1 year, 8 months ago
Selected Answer: A
hping3 is a network tool able to send custom ICMP/UDP/TCP packets and to display target replies like ping does with ICMP replies. It handles fragmentation and arbitrary packet body and size, and can be used to transfer files under supported protocols. Using hping3, you can test firewall rules, perform (spoofed) port scanning, test network performance using different protocols, do path MTU discovery, perform traceroute-like actions under different protocols, fingerprint remote operating systems, audit TCP/IP stacks, etc. hping3 is scriptable using the Tcl language.
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qwes333
Highly Voted 1 year, 8 months ago
Selected Answer: A
A hping is a free packet generator and analyzer for the TCP/IP protocol. Hping is one of the de-facto tools for security auditing and testing of firewalls and networks, and was used to exploit the Idle Scan scanning technique now implemented in the Nmap port scanner. The new version of hping, hping3, is scriptable using the Tcl language and implements an engine for string based, human readable description of TCP/IP packets, so that the programmer can write scripts related to low level TCP/IP packet manipulation and analysis in a very short time.
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289be4f_111
Most Recent 1 year, 1 month ago
Selected Answer: A
hping for generation
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klinkklonk
1 year, 5 months ago
Selected Answer: A
hping because that's what it does.
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pigracer
1 year, 7 months ago
you would use hping to generate the packets and use wireshark to analyze them
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JT4
1 year, 8 months ago
B. Wireshark
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AspiringNerd
1 year, 1 month ago
Wireshark does not generate packets itself.
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fercho2023
1 year, 8 months ago
Option B. Wireshark is more extensive than hping
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MortG7
1 year, 4 months ago
it is a sniffer and does not generate custom packets
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